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  • BAE to Continue USAF Component Obsolescence Mgmt Support; Al Whitmore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Continue USAF Component Obsolescence Mgmt Support; Al Whitmore Comments

    BAE Systems has received a potential three-year, $37 million contract to continue to continue to help the U.S. Air Force address obsolescence on aircraft, weapon systems, equipment and electronic components. The company said Monday it will use the web-based Advanced Component Obsolescence Management platform to monitor and predict when Air Force systems and platform parts will become obsolete. […] More

  • L3 to Develop Platform Mgmt System for BAE's Australian Frigate Contract Pursuit Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Develop Platform Mgmt System for BAE’s Australian Frigate Contract Pursuit Team

    BAE Systems has selected L3 Technologies to develop an integrated platform management system as a member of BAE’s industry team pursuing the potential $27.4 billion SEA5000 Future Frigate construction program in Australia. L3 said Sunday it will provide IPMS along with controls and instrumentation tools for the nine Type 26 Global Combat Ships that BAE proposed to build for the […] More

  • USAF Advances Textron, Sierra Nevada/Embraer Offerings to 2nd Light Attack Experimentation Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Advances Textron, Sierra Nevada/Embraer Offerings to 2nd Light Attack Experimentation Phase

    The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to further test non-developmental aircraft offerings from Textron Aviation and the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team through the second phase of the Light Attack Experiment program. The service branch said Friday it will continue to experiment with Textron’s AT-6 Wolverine as well as Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona from May to […] More

  • AWS Tech Helps Federal Customers Manage, Secure Cloud Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Tech Helps Federal Customers Manage, Secure Cloud Environments

    Multiple federal agencies have adopted Amazon Web Services‘ utility-based cloud technology platforms in efforts to manage, transmit and secure government data. AWS said Friday it uses various tools and methods in a push to comply with security and control requirements under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Defense Department‘s Security Requirements Guide. The company launched its GovCloud (US) […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Anti-Collision Software Into F-35 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Anti-Collision Software Into F-35

    Lockheed Martin will move to implement an anti-collision technology into the F-35 aircraft in an effort to help fighter pilots avoid controlled flight into terrain. The F-35 Joint Program Office, Lockheed and the Air Force Research Laboratory confirmed that the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System is ready to enter a rapid integration phase with the fighter aircraft […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Navy, UK Tomahawk Weapons Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Navy, UK Tomahawk Weapons Mgmt Software

    A Lockheed Martin business unit has received a one-year, $7.9 million delivery order to update the software product baseline of the Tomahawk Weapons Control Systems for the U.S. Navy and U.K. government. Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems will also help the service branch manage and sustain TTWCS software through the order awarded under a previously issued basic ordering […] More

  • Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle

    Change Healthcare has secured a position on the fourth iteration of the Defense Logistics Agency‘s potential 10-year Digital Imaging Network–Picture Archiving and Communications System procurement vehicle for U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday that Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration customers can buy McKesson-built enterprise imaging products that are now part of Change Healthcare’s […] More

  • AT&T Joins DXC's Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Joins DXC’s Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment

    AT&T has been named a teammate on DXC Technology‘s pursuit of the Next Generation Enterprise Network recompete contract for information technology services to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Virginia-based DXC, which currently holds the $3.5 billion NGEN contract, said in a press release it is forming an industry team to chase the follow-on award. […] More

  • CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana

    CenturyLink has announced it will open an outbound sales center in Monroe, Louisiana, and hire up to 150 employees to work there. The company said Thursday the new center will offer updated technology products and services to small business customers. Vernon Irvin, president of CenturyLink’s government, education, medium-and small-business groups, said the company established the outbound sales center […] More

  • PowerSecure to Help Army Engineers Repair Electric Grid in Puerto Rico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PowerSecure to Help Army Engineers Repair Electric Grid in Puerto Rico

    PowerSecure has received a potential $51.1 million contract modification to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers repair and restore Puerto Rico’s electric power grid. The company will perform work under the modified contract in San Juan, Puerto Rico through March 7, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the full obligated amount at the […] More

  • Navy Awards BAE Potential $62M in Ship Modernization Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards BAE Potential $62M in Ship Modernization Support Contracts

    BAE Systems will support modernization of a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship and guided missile cruiser under two contracts worth up to $62.2 million. The company said Wednesday it will help the Navy modernize USS America (LHA 6) and USS Cape St. George (CG 71). “Our work on board the America will keep the ship ready […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Nordic Postal Operator's Sorting Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Nordic Postal Operator’s Sorting Platform

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract extension from PostNord to update an automated technology platform the Sweden-based postal company uses to sort mails. Lockheed said Wednesday it will integrate the Next Generation Sortation Platform into  PostNord’s current system and supply an artificial intelligence-based technology designed to manage e-commerce packets. Minerva uses AI routines and works to help postal operators […] More